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  <h1>Help Content</h1>
  <p class="Para">Help topics from remote servers can be included seamlessly into the local help system. Use the
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  preference page to configure one or more remote servers from which to include content.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Button</p>
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          <p class="Para">Description</p>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Include local help only</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Remote help content is not enabled.</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Include remote help and give local help priority</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">The help system will show locally installed help contents as well
      as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on
      the remote information center the local page will be shown.</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Include remote help and give it priority</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">The help system will show locally installed help contents as well
      as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on
      the remote information center the remote page will be shown.</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">New/Edit/Delete</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Add, edit or delete a remote data source</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">View Properties</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">View the properties for this remote data source</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Test Connection</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Tests to see if it is possible to connect to this host/port
      combination</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Disable/Enable</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Allows a data source to be disabled so the help system will not
      try to read topics from that source.</span></td>
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  <p>Pressing the "New" button opens a dialog to add a new information center, these are the fields that can be entered
  in the Add new information center dialog.</p>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Name</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">A name for this information center</span></td>
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      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">URL</span></td>
      <td><span style="font-weight: 400">Specifies the url of the information center server</span></td>
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